Re: [PyrNet-L] Chat: Pyr Training...(long)

[Joy Mccarron <joym@monmouth.com>]

Cindy,

I am laughing about the Mastiff description.  hahahaha  My son has a Mastiff
and they are SO LAID back!!!  They too love to make BIG puddles with water.
And the walk up behind you and scare the pants off you is FUNNY to watch!!.
They got him as a pup and he would drive Maggie crazy with the kangarooing
around her to play.  They were so funny together.  Two big opposite dogs
romping around the yard. What a sight for the passer-bys. Good thing they
were both "lovers". But between the two of them my kitchen floor was a
swimming pool with the water all over... talk about SLOBBER.   Gotta love
'em!!!!  :-)   Joy McCarron (Maggie's Mom)


----- Original Message -----
From: <clhenke@juno.com>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 1999 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [PyrNet-L] Chat: Pyr Training...(long)


> Michaelene, how lovely, how well put, how easily this brings a smile to
> those faces that have gone down this route.
>
> Gray hairs?  Oh no...I learned long ago with the kids  why hair color was
> invented!  With the four Pyr. kids it is just as well that I don't know
> what is under the color.
>
> Our breed was the Mastiff, not a fast worker, but easy going, willing to
> please and as long as you were a happy teacher they learn their lessons
> well!  Homebodies, no desire to be any further than a few feet from you.
> Quiet too, one giant woof is sufficient to let you know someone is here,
> and that is given after being well thought out, better to walk up to an
> intruder in silence ( and really scare the pants off them ), rather than
> make too much commotion.  Then we had four rolly-polly fluff balls of
> white ( two with blond markings and the most gorgeous double lined
> egyptian marked eyes you ever seen ) enter our lives, and nothing has
> been the same since!  Water, they adore it, it must go everywhere, share
> it, spread it around, give it to your humans by the lapful.  Bark,
> anything, everything, air, grass blowing, the same horses they see all
> day long every day, us ( this does drive me nuts..how can they bark at
> us?? ), digging, the deeper the better the cooler and wetter you can dig
> into the ground is heaven!  Then there is the willingness to
> go...anywhere...as they make their escape they look back almost
> apologizing for the haunted...we must go...look.  No matter if it is one
> fast 17 year old son running them to the ground, or me in hot pursuit in
> the car, the look is always one of " You want us home in our own yard???
> ".  I'm the only one in this neighborhood who thinks dogs should be in
> their own yard and I have four of a breed that is committed to being
> somewhere else.  I would love to have the money to put up ten foot high
> chain link with concrete poured four feet in the ground...I am becoming
> paranoid about fencing.
>
> Like you, I would not recommend them to just anyone.  But just as you
> say, they are gentle loving soft happy companions, they love people, and
> I feel for them that  so many folks are afraid of big dogs and will not
> even give them a gentle scratch behind the ears.  They are watchful but
> kind, they are active and always willing to play, and their ability to
> move ,jump sideways, turn twist, leap to major heights, spring and hang
> on delicate edges totally fascinates me still.  I wonder if they really
> watched sheep or more likely mountain goats?  They are wonderful, so good
> about putting up with their Dad dragging them up on the couch to lay with
> him, each one in turn.  They roll their eyes as much to say,...gotta
> humor the old guy!  They are so hard not to love!  The Pyrs. are a whole
> other world, they teach you to think differently, they add so much if
> your willing to adjust.  I think I will go hug and get kisses from those
> four big white softies right now, and remind that I do love them...even
> if they do drive me nuts at time!     :-)!!!      Cindy.
>
> Cindy Henke
> clhenke@juno.com
> Ennis, Texas
>
> "All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained
> in the dog."  ~ Franz Kafka
>
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